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WhatsApp-Facebook User Data Move Incites FTC Complaint

Law360, New York (August 29, 2016, 6:57 PM EDT) -- Privacy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission on Monday to investigate mobile messaging service WhatsApp Inc.'s move to share personal phone numbers and other user data with parent company Facebook Inc. for targeted marketing, labeling the policy change deceptive and unfair.

Last week WhatsApp, which has 1 billion users worldwide, had revealed its plan to reverse the company's promise to WhatsApp users that personal account information would not be disclosed or used for advertising purposes.

In a complaint to the FTC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy called out the Facebook-owned company's new privacy position for...

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